Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.